On Oct 18, 2006, at 10:59 PM, Mark D Lew wrote:
the word envelope is pronounced like "on-velope" by roughly the same percentage of Americans who say "nucular", but you rarely hear complaints about it. That could be because the "on-velope" sayers are mostly in the Northeast, which has traditionally been the socially dominant region.
A lot of us were taught that a [vaze] costs less than $20.00, while a [vahz] costs more.
Come to think of it, I grew up saying [onvelope] because my parents were from NYC, but lost it as I became more cosmopolitan, along with such Marylandisms as melk, pellow, heelicopter...
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